Improvement in butter-workers



W. N. GOLDEN. Butter-Workers.

N0. 139,57]. Patentedlune 3,1873.

witueamz W WARREN N. GOLDEN, OF COLDWATER, MIGHIGAN.

IMPROVEMENT IN BUTTER-WORKERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 139.571, dated June 3, 1873; application filed March 17, 1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WARREN N. GOLDEN, of Uoldwatemin the county of Branch and State of Michigan, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Butter'Workers; and

I do herebydeclare the following to be a full,

clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawin g forming part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 is a top view. Fig. 2 is a vertical section in line a m of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a cross sect-ion of a butter-worker.

The invention relates to means for working butter rapidly, thoroughly, and inexpensively. It will be lirst fully described in connection with all that is necessary to a full understanding thereof, and then clearly pointed out in the claims.

in the drawing, A represents any suitable frame, upon which is placed the uprights a a, that have suitable bearings to receive shafts b0. oneof which has a crank, b. The bot ter-workers have paddles 0, whose back surfaces crise therefrom in a plane passing through axis, while their working-faces curr'e decreasingly forward at c from the edge, and then have a fiat surface, a. By this construction the surface of paddle first flat-tens out the butter and gives pressure that increases until the maximum is attained on the end curve 0 firmly in place, and prevents the butter-workers from rising vertically. The latter rests and travels upon the friction-rolls G, journaled in the extension pieces a a and a a It is also provided with a circular-rack, f, which gears with the pinions E E, that are thus enabled to turn it at a given rate of speed. The butter-workers, when employed to make fine butter, have about the same diameter as the pinions E E, but when used for coarse common butter this is not necessary. Thebuttor-holder has a perforated false bottom, H,

over which is placed the usual strainer-cloth,

strainer the crank bf is turned, and causes the paddles first to press upon and flatten out the butter, squeezing it gradually until the endcurve 0 is reached. The table, then moving. on, carries the butterat an angle to the next worker, B, where it is pressed in an entirely different direction. This effectually expresses all the butter-milk. The water and buttermilk being now withdrawn through a suitableoutlet in the bottom of the butter-holder, fresh water may beintroduced, and the butter may be rc-worked. The shafts b have open ortwoe part hinged-bearings, so that,.by raising the bar 1 everything; may be lifted out of the way, and free access allowed to the butter or for cleaning the various parts.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The butterworkers, having paddles, with the end-curve c and fiat surface c, as and for the purpose described.

' 2 The bar E hinged or secured, detachably, to uprights a a, and combined with the middle bearing D, as and for the purpose set forth.

3. Two butter-workers, having independent shafts revolving in opposite directions, and each with its own pinion combined with a racked butter-holder, F, as described, so that one crank, operated'by a single person, can

turn two butter-workers, as well as the butter holder, by the same movement, and thus do nearly, or quite, double the usual amount of work.

The above specification of my invention signed by me thisl3th day of March, A.-D.

' N. GOLDEN.

Witnesses;

SoLoN O. KEMON, 1 4 '1. DURBIN D. Or RAND. 

